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Old December 3rd 07, 05:52 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Walt
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You are correct that Google's laissez-faire attitude makes it a
frustrating personal news server. One line for both sewage and
drinking water. On the other hand, Google's approach makes it a
very good documentarian and archiver of Usenet. I guess there are
inherent conflicts between those roles, and Google has chosen to
occupy the role that no one else is occupying.


Exactly. Deja News (which was bought by Google and turned into Google
Groups) was an archive not a news service. Today Google is still an
archive, not a news service. Google grafted on a method of posting, but
the guts is still an archive.

Good thing, too. Google is the *only* usenet archive, so it's best that
they focus on doing that instead of being a usenet service. And maybe
there's even a point to archiving all that spam...



Anyway, the season's here. Get thee out on the hill, spring will arrive
before you know it.


Our local resort opened briefly last weekend, then closed during the
week because of massive rain (as featured on Monday Night Football).
Now scheduled to re-open this weekend -- that's a five-yard penalty
for a false start.


Four days in already. Many more to come.

//Walt
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